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TRANSMITTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals
Synonyms:
sender; transmitter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("transmitter" is a kind of...):
set (any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals)
Meronyms (parts of "transmitter"):
aerial; antenna; transmitting aerial (an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transmitter"):
jammer (a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming)
radio transmitter (transmitter that is the part of a radio system that transmits signals)
satellite transmitter (a transmitter on a communications satellite)
television transmitter (transmitter that is part of a television system)
Derivation:
transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
Example:
when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects
Synonyms:
transmitter; vector
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("transmitter" is a kind of...):
agent (an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transmitter"):
gene delivery vector; transducing vector (a vector for delivering genes into cells)
carrier; immune carrier ((medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others)
Derivation:
transmit (transfer to another)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who transmits a message
Example:
return to sender
Synonyms:
sender; transmitter
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("transmitter" is a kind of...):
communicator (a person who communicates with others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transmitter"):
spammer (someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk))
Derivation:
transmit (send from one person or place to another)
Context examples:
Electrical recordings showed that Shisa7 hastened receptor responses to the transmitter GABA and nearly doubled the size of responses made in the presence of Valium (a.k.a. diazepam), suggesting the protein made the receptor more sensitive to benzodiazepines.
(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)
No matter what planet you're on, lightning bolts act like radio transmitters — sending out radio waves when they flash across a sky, said Shannon Brown of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a scientist from NASA's Juno mission.
(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)
When they hushed the astrocytes in rats by reducing transmitter release, the rats breathed and sighed at a lower rate than normal.
(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)
It is a capsule that is about the size of a large pill, with a lens, a light, a camera, a radio transmitter, and a battery inside.
(Capsule endoscope, NCI Dictionary)
Recently scientists have shown that astrocytes may communicate like neurons by shooting off, or releasing, chemical messages, called transmitters, to neighboring cells.
(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)
